Why do you think that? Again I can only speak to CA law: vicarious liability of the employer does not extend to criminal acts of the employee, unless the employer knew or should have known of the employee’s propensity for violence. Why should it be otherwise? And, just because you have a cause of action doesn’t mean you’ve hit the jackpot and get to just start pulling numbers out of the air. It doesn’t appear the family was actually injured. JIB will be eager to settle just to clean up the PR mess. A quarter mil sounds about right. He’ll, I’d counsel them to take $100 or 150K, since JIB would win the case at summary judgment, and, of course, a judgment against the perp would be worthless
A man got 2.7 million when a McDonalds employee spilled hot coffee on him!
And your telling me shooting at a family isn’t worse than that?
Employer should have been aware of blacks propensity towards violence. Hiring them was reckless.
Just throwing it out there